A strange, glowing form of matter called dusty plasma turns out to be incredibly sensitive to magnetic fields. Researchers found that even weak fields can change how tiny particles grow, simply by ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unthinkable state of matter that challenges decades of assumptions ...

A quantum state of matter has appeared in a material where physicists thought it would be impossible, forcing a rethink on ...

At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible. The ...

Charge density waves (CDWs) are ordered, crystal-like patterns in the arrangement of electrons that spontaneously form inside ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

A team of researchers from Switzerland and France and theoretical physicists in Canada and the U.S., including Rice University, believe they have found evidence of a theorized quantum phenomenon ...

Physicists have observed a strange new quantum phase in a graphene-based system, where a superfluid appears to freeze into a solid-like state. Cooling usually pushes matter through a simple sequence.

Scientists have discovered a new quantum state of matter that connects two significant areas of physics, potentially leading ...

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...

The frontier of moiré matter has opened up a previously inaccessible realm of emergent topological phenomena. This class of materials — formed by stacking two-dimensional layers with a small twist — ...

Condensed matter physics examines the collective behaviour of vast assemblies of interacting particles in solids and liquids. It seeks to explain how the arrangement and quantum states of electrons ...